Twisted: I see no reason why the drag 'n drop would cause a problem...

Silk: I had to re-patch Buddy's meters/faders after updating to 8.5.3 so I don't think that's the problem...

I think maybe if you already installed the Buddy meters prior to upgrading to 8.5.3, the installer will continue working because it is really looking at the patched 8.5.2 file

 
I don't know about that because I had to execute the patch after the 8.5.3 update, but it does sound like a issue that's Vista 32Bit windows specific.
 
EDIT:
 
Maybe not even Vista 32Bit specific because Silk had Win 7 64 Bit in his signature.
 
Maybe a SONAR 32bit specific issue.

Could be related to Vista 32-bit (not sure why but I guess it's possible)...

I'd bet it's a SONAR 32 bit specific issue because Silktone in running Win 7 64, but he gets the problem with 32 bit SONAR.

I haven't tried it on SONAR 32...Will try it and see what happens...

papa2005


Twisted: I see no reason why the drag 'n drop would cause a problem...

Silk: I had to re-patch Buddy's meters/faders after updating to 8.5.3 so I don't think that's the problem...

Ah, OK. Not sure what is up with this in my case then.
 
@ thomasabarnes: I am using Windows 7 64-bit, so I don't think this is specific to Vista 32-bit.
 
BTW, the patcher I have is specifically for 8.5.2.222, and I got it from this page. Is there a newer patcher available?

Just went to Buddy's site...He has patches now for 8.5.3! Damn, he's good! *LOL*
 
EDIT: OOPS! My bad...It's for 8.3! (I got ahead of myself)....

papa2005


Just went to Buddy's site...He has patches now for 8.5.3! Damn, he's good! *LOL*
 
EDIT: OOPS! My bad...It's for 8.3! (I got ahead of myself)....

Where?
 
The link I have only shows 8.3.1 and 8.5.2.222 patchers...
 
EDIT: OK, only saw your updated post after I posted. 

Got the same error message trying to patch the 32-bit version...Hmmmm....

Could be related to updating from 8.5.2 to 8.5.3 but that seems odd since I had no problem patching it in 64-bit...